"So. I've finally caught you."

Suzaku tried to open his eyes, only to realize that they already were open. Damn. Zero had blindfolded him. Suzaku jerked his hands against the bonds holding them together in vain; they were too strong for him to break and too tight to slip out of.

"What do you want, Zero?"

Suzaku thrashed his head as best he could to try and loose the blindfold but it was futile. He desperately wished he could; the way Zero's voice sounded suggested that his mask was off. After struggling against his bonds a bit more, he finally settled into his chair and waited, tensed, for whatever Zero had planned.

"I'll kill you, bastard! I'll kill you for Euphie! Shit!"

He gritted his teeth and waited for a response. It took a minute, as if the terrorist had been contemplating what to do about the situation.

Zero—Lelouch—meanwhile, watched with satisfaction as the realization that he wasn't going anywhere any time soon finally got through Suzaku's head. This time he'd make sure and convert Suzaku to his side. Suzaku was in a lot of danger and if Lelouch could only convince him to be a double agent, nobody would go after him. Lelouch could watch his back while the Britannia army watched his front. That way his childhood friend could be safe.

"My, my, aren't we feisty. I only want to bring you over to my side, Suzaku Kururugi." Lelouch's voice sounded much more confident than he felt. He sort of hated the smug overtone it carried but that was the way Zero's voice was supposed sound in times like these. Right?

"Ha. And what the hell makes you think I'll join a murdering terrorist like you?"

Suzaku's voice shook in pure—anger? Or was it really hatred? Lelouch knew he shouldn't take it personally but the way Suzaku's voice trembled with some horrible emotion pierced his chest. Suzaku shouldn't feel this way. Not towards Lelouch. But since he wasn't Lelouch right now—since he was Zero…

"Please. We both want to make the world a better place."

He'd tried the tactic before so he wasn't really surprised when Suzaku screeched something about Euphie making the world better and struggled again. Lelouch's jaw clenched and in two strides he was over to the chair Suzaku sat in. He placed one hand on either side of the chair and held it down so it wouldn't rock back and forth.

By this point, Suzaku was almost in hysterics about being so close to the man who killed his precious Euphie and not being able to do anything. His nails scored marks into the wood of the chair and the thick rope started burning his torso as he struggled. At this rate, he'd seriously injure himself.

"Give up on the dead. Focus on the living! Yes, I took your precious Euphie…" Lelouch's throat tightened for a second before he faked a cough and continued. "But if you continue denying my requests, I'll…"

He had no idea what to say. What do you say to a man who's lost everything? And there was no way Lelouch would threaten his classmates or Nunally—even as Zero he loved them.

"I'll take your precious Lelouch vi Britannia." The shock of what he'd said hit him almost harder than Suzaku. He felt his insides give way in disgust at the fact that he'd stated his real last name and connection to the corrupt bastards who'd taken away everything.

Suzaku's whole body had frozen for a moment, and then all of a sudden he gave the biggest shudder Lelouch had ever seen. When the shudder was finished he began trembling and beads of sweat trickled down his face.

"How did you—how? No one knows that! How can you—" Suzaku's voice shook, Lelouch noted. The Zero half noted this with satisfaction but Lelouch felt his heart pang. Honestly, how could Suzaku care so much about someone he'd been childhood friends with? They hadn't even done much together since children. With Suzaku helping Britannia and Lelouch helping the rebels…

"I know many things. I've kept a close eye on you, Kururugi. Heh. How amusing that the young prince is still alive."

Suzaku continued trembling and said nothing. Lelouch wondered how far he should go. Using himself to make Suzaku join him seemed conceited. Suzaku really wouldn't go that far for a childhood friend. There was no way! Right?

"And how pathetic. That such a worthless spawn of the enemy is still living. Ha! And doing nothing to aid either side. That boy is a pathetic coward who deserves to know the pain and humiliation of living! Living such a soft life… I will drive him into the ground and cause him to suffer like no other. I have no respect for people who choose to not choose a side! Miserable coward, hiding like the rat he is. I'll—"

"Shut the hell up! What do you know?"

Lelouch's eyes widened in surprise. Suzaku shouldn't stick up for him. Lelouch was only talking about what he thought of himself before he got the Geass.

"Lelouch is not a coward. And you think his life is soft? He's suffered more than anyone I know! And yet he still maintains that calm façade and does everything in his power to provide for his sister and the people he loves. And he does have a side you bastard! What would someone who's never even talked to him know? He has a side but he's going to change the world in his own way, one different from yours! Just because he isn't surrounded by death and destruction from the fighting he's done, doesn't make him someone who won't change the world! He will change the world! I believe in him! I believe in that man. That boy who carried his sister through carnage and death—who brought me through it safely—and didn't cry because he needed to be strong for us! That boy who—"

Suzaku's voice broke and tears streamed down his face from under the blindfold. Lelouch retracted his hands from the sides of the chair to cover his mouth. To hide his own crying.

"Don't you dare do anything to him. Do you hear me? Lelouch is even more than a friend to me. He's more than family. I love him! I'd die for him in a heartbeat! So don't you dare lay a single hand on him. If you so much as look at him… I'll destroy you!"

Tears streamed down both Suzaku and Lelouch's face. Lelouch fell to his knees on the ground, hands holding back the sobs that threatened to burst out. He'd never known he'd meant so much to Suzaku. He couldn't trust himself to speak without a shaking voice. But there was a problem here.

Suzaku was weeping huge, messy tears so brokenly that Lelouch's heart was being ripped from his chest. He needed to stop it. He needed to make his friend feel better in any way possible. But how? How do you comfort… An idea formed in his mind that was completely insane. He wasn't thinking straight but it worked with Shirley so…

He straightened up, lifting himself from the ground and taking Suzaku's face in both gloved hands.

"W-what are y-you—?"

He silenced Suzaku with a kiss. Straight on the mouth. It was wet and messy and awkward… but somehow wonderful. With Shirley it had been rather weird but with Suzaku it almost felt natural. It felt… right.

Suzaku froze and his sobs stopped. His hips bucked up in an attempt to get Lelouch off of him. Lelouch's hands tangled in Suzaku's hair and pulled his face closer.

"Su…zaku…" Lelouch moaned against the other boy's lips. Suddenly, Suzaku stopped struggling.

"Must… resist…"

He struggled again a little, but it was getting feebler by the second. Lelouch deepened the kiss, tongue sliding into Suzaku's mouth hungrily and aggressively.

"Nnn." A small moan of pleasure escaped Lelouch's lips and suddenly Suzaku's will seemed to plummet.

"Voice… making me… ahh…" Suzaku's words dissolved into a moan and suddenly his tongue was tangled with Lelouch's, his lips consuming Lelouch's with a fiery passion that surprised the both of them.

The Zero side of Lelouch suddenly caught hold of itself and Lelouch leapt back from Suzaku as if the boy had just burst into flames. What the hell was he thinking in a place like this? Any member of the resistance could just walk in and see them. But…

Suzaku was panting heavily, his cheeks flushed and his hair thrown messily around his head. He was damn sexy.

"Lelouch…" Suzaku panted out.

Lelouch's cheeks flushed and his eyes widened in distress. Suzaku couldn't know from just a kiss, right? There was no way!

"D-did you enjoy… my… my show?" Lelouch was so flustered he could barely get the words out. The corners of Suzaku's mouth tightened and he began to speak, his voice gaining strength.

"Not at all. You're even more… disgusting than I… thought. But if it'll make you leave Lelouch alone… Will you?"

Lelouch's cheeks deepened in colour at the word disgusting. His pride wounded, he needed to feel in control. Time to take things to the next level then. He closed the gap between him and Suzaku and slid his hands up Suzaku's thighs, eliciting a shiver from the other boy. Who was suitably aroused, Lelouch noted with a small sense of victory.

"Your body doesn't seem to agree. Su~ Za~ Ku~" He breathed the boy's name into his ear in the deepest growl he could manage. According to Suzaku's… manhood… he sounded very sexy.

"It's… y-your…" Suzaku's hips seemed to be rising of their own accord, as if searching for Lelouch's body. Lelouch marveled at the control he had. He lowered himself onto Suzaku's hips and began grinding slowly, feeling his own manhood grow harder at the whimpers of pleasure coming from Suzaku.

"My what?" Lelouch panted, pressing himself against Suzaku and sliding along his body slowly. Both of them gasped as lightening tingles spread from their hips to their stomachs.

"V-voice…" Suzaku murmured, voice tone rising at the end as Lelouch suddenly let his slip down to Suzaku's crotch. He started rubbing Suzaku—who was incredibly hard at this point—through the cool material of his suit. It may have been torture to Suzaku, for Lelouch to go this slow, but it was also taking its toll on Lelouch. Suzaku's whimpers and moans were delicious and sent zings singing between Lelouch's legs.

"W-what about i-it?" Suzaku gave a particularly loud moan at the sound of Lelouch's voice and Lelouch couldn't take it anymore. He started tearing at the suit Suzaku was wearing, growling like an angry cat.

"Sssssssounds…" Suzaku's voice came out in a hiss as Lelouch bit down on Suzaku's neck. Suzaku's whole upper body was exposed and Lelouch couldn't stop himself from trailing bites down Suzaku's torso to his nipples, which Lelouch rubbed gently between his teeth.

"Hnnn…" Suzaku's hips bucked upwards into Lelouch's body and Lelouch started tearing at the bonds on Suzaku's wrists—he needed to get the suit off of Suzaku's arms to get at the bottom half of his body.

"S-sounds… l-like…"

When the bonds were finally free, it seemed neither boy realized Lelouch's mistake. Or even cared at that point. Suzaku, without even removing his blindfold, helped Lelouch strip off the rest of his suit. The sensual feel of the gloved hands against his skin drove him crazy.

Lelouch didn't bother taking Suzaku anywhere else; he laid him on the floor and his mouth started moving lower and lower on Suzaku.

"Sounds l-like… w-what?" He murmured around a mouthful of Suzaku's skin. Suzaku reached down and buried his hands in Lelouch's hair.

"A-and… h-hair… feels l-like…" He kept giving these sharp tugs to Lelouch's hair, which only served to turn Lelouch on more. Lelouch started stripping his own clothes off at record pace, his member throbbing between his legs.

Suzaku suddenly tugged hard on Lelouch's hair, forcing Lelouch back up to Suzaku's face and ruining his plan of giving Suzaku an incredible pleasure. Suzaku suddenly buried his face in Lelouch's neck and inhaled deeply.

"S-smells like…"

"What?" Lelouch snapped suddenly, impatience taking hold of him for a second.

"L-Lelouch!" Suzaku cried out as a gloved hand suddenly started rubbing circles around his nipple. Lelouch shrugged and made to dip his head back down, but Suzaku stopped him suddenly.

"W-want to… h-hear…"

"Hear what?" Now Lelouch was starting to get pissed. But not for long—Suzaku had suddenly started licking down Lelouch's body with quick, hot licks until he got down to Lelouch's member. Lelouch was about to protest, but suddenly Suzaku took him in his mouth and everything else faded.

Suzaku's mouth was hot and wet, and the tongue stroking Lelouch was incredible. Abandoning all pride and precautions, Lelouch gave in to the sensation and started swiveling his hips and bucking up against Suzaku. A slow, steady pressure was building in Lelouch's stomach and his animalistic growls grew louder and louder. At the same time, in the back of his mind he dimly realized that Suzaku was jerking off to the sound of his voice.

That, combined with the fact that Suzaku had just began running his tongue along the slit in Lelouch's member, completely sent him over the edge. He cried out as the pressure in his stomach peaked and everything pleasant thing he felt focused between his legs.

"S-Suza…ku… S-Suzaku… Suzaku… Suzaku!"

His last shout turned into a scream in unison with Suzaku's cry of "Lelouch!" and they both came. He lay there, panting as Suzaku panted between his legs, both of them covered in cum. It took a while for them to recover, but Lelouch recovered first and it was a good thing; he just had time to put his mask on and half-cover himself with his discarded cape when Suzaku realized now might be a good time to remove his blindfold.

For a while, they scrutinized each other. Then Suzaku slowly reached over and grabbed hold of his suit, spitting cum onto the ground as he did so. He dropped his eyes and slowly stood up, avoiding looking at Zero. Then he walked, wobbly step by wobbly step, to the door, not bothering to put his suit on. Before opening the door, he paused and spoke without looking back.

"We never speak of this." He opened the door and took a step out before letting out a heavy sigh and speaking again. "And never, ever tell Lelouch." With that, he disappeared, leaving Lelouch lying on the floor, wondering what the hell he'd just done.

Bonus: Lelouch's Arrive Home

"Hey Nunally." Lelouch muttered, draping his coat on the chair and running his hand through his hair in distress. How could he face Suzaku next time they met? Well, Suzaku didn't know who he was but…

"Lelouch! I'm so glad you're home. I was getting worried about you! And where were you?"

"I was… uh…"

"Um. Lelouch, what's that smell?"

Lelouch sniffed the air questioningly and shook his head.

"I don't smell anything out of the ordinary."

Nunally appraised him—it was scary how it seemed she could with closed eyes but it really did seem as if she was looking at him. Or through him.

"Come here, Lelouch."

Lelouch obeyed hesitantly, wondering if he smelled like the rebel base. Nunally had extraordinary senses to make up for her loss of sight. What if she smelled him and then Kallen and put it together and—

"Oh my."

Lelouch tensed, startled at her exclamation and expecting an admonition, when suddenly she burst into laughter.

"I knew it! I expected this would happen someday, Lelouch. I'm so happy for you!"

Lelouch frowned. What in the name of…?

"I thought it was… when you first walked in… but it's you, Lelouch so…"

"Come on, Nunally, I'm tired of people not saying what they want. Spit it out!"

His voice was gentle and teasing but he inwardly cringed at his last sentence, reminded of when Suzaku spit out his… nope, not going there.

"When you first walked in, I thought you were Suzaku because you smelled like him. Then I realized it was you and that's when I knew."

Lelouch swallowed nervously. "Knew what?"

"That other smell is one I smell a lot around married couples, especially in the morning. So I think a congratulations is in order."

Lelouch's eyes widened and he shook his head. "Oh no."

"Lelouch… I just want to say as your little sister… I accept you as being gay! And I totally think Suzaku and you make a wonderful couple. I always have and I approve of this. So…"

Lelouch's eyes swept over to the opening doorway in a panic, wondering who was coming in and fearing it. His thoughts raced. No Nunally! Don't say it! Don't—

"Congrats on your sex!"

Suzaku's books clattered to the ground.